Are Aston Villa The New Factory Of Sadness?

The New Factory Of Sadness?

For along time now we the Villa Faithful have had to put up with a lot from the people who run Aston Villa. When Randy Lerner took over The Villa from Deadly Dug, The Villa Faithful thought all their christmases had come at once, and the good times were going to roll. Martin O’Neill was already there at the club, so with more money set to be made available. Villa it seemed were going places, The Champions League maybe.

Eventually with no champions league spot looking likely to be secured, Lerner decided to pull the plug on the continuing spending. So with a few days to before the start of the season MON decided to walk out of the club, with the James Milner sale being the last straw.

The managers to follow MON, Gerard Houllier (who I didn’t mind), Alex McLeish and now our current manager Paul Lambert. Now just for the signing of Alex McLeish heads should have rolled!!!. I mean, what on earth possessed them to sign him from our sworn enemies Birmingham City. Now I don’t know about you but from then I was starting to wonder about the people who were running our club.

Paul Lambert

So with GH becoming ill and AM getting the sack after one season. Paul Faulkner persuaded Randy Lerner to sign PL from Norwich due to the Villa fans chanting his name at the end of the 2011/12 season. Now we’re led to believe that Lerner and his mouth piece Faulkner (that we don’t hear much of) made it clear to PL that the club had to reduce its wage bill drastically, and clear out the high earners, that would become know as “The Bomb Squad”. With a little looking on the net Lambert has spent between 38 and £44,000,000. This doesn’t including compensation being paid to Norwich and back room staff being released from their jobs at The Villa when Lambert became our manager.

Lets looks at the “Project” that Lambert the manager has described he’s doing, or in other words the players he’s brought in. Are we to believe that Lambert couldn’t find any money to buy a couple of experienced premiership players from the money he’d been given. Manchester United done it with the kids, (the class of 92) mind you there were quite a few experienced players around them when they eventually got into the first team. You will hear people say you’ve got to give the kids time? I agree, but what was wrong with the kids we already had at the club if they had to go down this root. I’d say the kids already at the Villa were better than the ones that PL brought in. You could argue if he’s actually got a good eye for a player.

And then you have to ask yourself, why would you have a squad where the majority are kids anyways. If its about reducing the wage bill, then its big risk to take if things start to go wrong. What do I mean about wrong. Well its not only the league position of our club but how they entertain you. Apart form the Arsenal, Chelsea and 30 minutes of the Everton game at home the performances have been utter crap. I don’t want our club to be relegated but I want to be entertained. After all I pay well over £1000 a year for me and my sons season tickets away matches and merchandise.

But all of this is MON’s fault and we’re paying the price for his spending, bore bore effing bore. Well who signed the cheques and who let the spending get out of hand? Why didn’t they asked Alex McLeish to cut the wage bill? They did, did they!!! Yet they still gave him £18,000,000 to bring in players like Stevens, Hutton, N’Zobbia and Shay Given. Don’t remember there being a “Bomb Squad” when AM was in charge either.

For me are current position fall on the shoulders of Randy Lerner, Paul Faulkner and definitely Paul Lambert, Lambert must take part of the blame. The current players are the ones he wanted at the club, (the others are in the bomb squad or loaned out) they’re his buy’s his tactics and the utter crappy performances are Paul Lambert’s fault alone. Its for him to get a tune out of his players that he bought from the lower leagues home and abroad. I don’t believe that the likes of Cardiff, Norwich, Swansea, West Ham and WBA can outbid us and pay higher wages than The Villa. I think RL has asked PL to watch his spending a little. But Lambert has taken him literally and took it upon himself to make us look like a tuppence ha’penny club that can just about afford to buy a cheap suit. How does this make us look to players of any quality we might want to buy. It wouldn’t look attractive to me, considering that thats exactly what we’ve got a tuppence ha’penny Squad. Its being said that most of the players signed buy Lambert are on a wage between 5k and 15k a week tops, apart from Benteke and the rest are high earners left over from the MON era. I say if we pay low wages then its because they choose to do so, not because we have to.

So Yes I’m sorry to say I would like to see the back Lerner, Faulkner and Lambert. I just don’t see how they can turn it around collectively. You don’t know where you stand with Lerner and Faulkner because they just don’t talk. And I don’t  trust Lambert to spend big money if it was available because of his past dealings. And just because I have this opinion that doesn’t mean I don’t support my club, I love my club. Its because what we’ve been served up over the last three years and the spin that’s been put on it I’m speaking up. I just don’t believe the spin, and I think things will get worse if we continue this way. UTV

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